Water Footprint Calculator Thing

Download the excel file: WaterFootprintYourNameHere.xlsx from the Sakai resources page, complete the questions below in the spreadsheet for between 1 and 10 water footprint calculators (after, of course, you have submitted your information to the calculator) and return the completed spreadsheet to me via email by the beginning of class on Wednesday, April 2nd. For each complete submission, you will receive 1 point toward your midterm exam with any “overflow” points (points that would bring your exam grade above 100) going into quiz points. You may submit results and answers for as many as 10 calculators; anyone who submits results from a unique calculator (unique in that they are the only student in the class to use this particular calculator) will receive an additional 0.5 points for each unique calculator submission (and I have final say with regard to classification as a “unique” submission). If you have any questions, please let me know.  I will share the results of this meta-analysis with the class but will not share individual responses in a manner that would identify the submissions of a particular respondent.

Note: if the answer to question #7 is no, for the calculator that you are using and you are asked to provide information about your income, use the median income for female/male, 25+, with a bachelor’s degree of US$50,944/year.

1. What is the name of the water footprint calculator (use a provided name or invent a generally descriptive name like “National Geographic” or Water Footprint Network Extended”)

2. What is the direct link to the calculator?

3. Would you classify this calculator as a brief, extended or somewhere in the middle?

4. How long did you take to complete this calculator? (answer to the nearest minute)

5. According to this calculator, what is your water use in US gallons per day? (###)

6. Are you female or male? (female/male)

7. Does this calculator specifically consider your gender in its calculation? (yes/no)

8. Does this calculator consider either specifically or generally the idea that you may be in college? (yes/no)

9. Does this calculator consider either specifically or generally the nature of water use as consumptive, non-consumptive, and/or semi-consumptive? (yes/no)

10. Does this calculator consider either specifically or generally the concept of green, blue, gray, and/or black water use? (yes/no)

11. Does this calculator assume (either explicitly or implicitly) your country of residence? (yes- USA, yes- EU, yes- other (write country name here), no- but I got to indicate my country of residence, or no- and I was not able to indicate my country of residence)

12. Indicate which calculator was your favorite and which was your least favorite. (favorite/least favorite)